Selection with Registration envelopes (3 mint - 4d long format, 3d on 4d long format and 3d and used - 4d (1) and 3d (10 - one ''unsealed'' paying the printed matter rate and rare thus) plus newspapers wrappers comprising 1869 1d DLR (16 mint - majority never folded and one used to Melbourne) 1888 1d Centennial (73 mint - the majority never folded - and 3 used one of which is cancelled with the scarce POSTAGE PAID SYDNEY N.S.W. cds), 1892 ½d grey (25 mint - the majority never folded and 7 used, one to Fiji, another uprated to Tonga and another to NZ redirected to Adelaide), 1906 ½d unwmkd (4 mint and 4 used one uprated to London another with early date of 15.3.1906) plus four other odd examples and Envelopes comprising OHMS ''OS'' within indicia registered pre-printed envelopes to Dept of Public Instruction (3 - one apparently CTO), 1870 1d red mint and 2d Blue (2 - both used), 1888 1d Brick-red used in 1888, 1888 1d Centennial (13 - 9 mint, one a doubleton with rear advertisement for John Robertson Whisky and 4 used) and 2d Emu (1 mint and 5 used), 1895 ½d used within Sydney and struck with ''20 POSTED'' handstamp, 1883 1d DLR ''OS'' (5 - one CTO), 1888 1d Centennial ''OS'' (3 - one showing three x double batrs in red over the indicium) and 1895 2d DLR ''OS'' OHMS envelope for the Govt Printing Office aklso with three x double bars in red over the indicium plus two other later envelopes. Mixed condition though an opportunity to study a range of flaws and stocks present in this collection (189)

Lot 151

Estimate: $80

Realised Price : $105

Envelopes: 1899 (21 Nov) use of 2d Jubilee printed to private order large format envelope (173 x 111mm) from Berrigan to Sydney. Vertical central fold resulting in some splitting and a few minor tears at top though an uncommon example of postal stationery

1888 1d Violet Centennial Postcard on PTPO (buff stock) envelope. One unused and one used in 1892 (19 Jul) from Sydney to Surry Hills. Mostly fine and both scarce on this coloured stock (2)

Lot 154

Estimate: $500

Realised Price : $380

Registration Envelope: 1909 (29 Sep) use of 3d from The Exchange to Parramatta uprated with 2d Jubilee punctured ''OS/NSW'' and the indicia similarly punctured. Parts of the address obscured by a non-postal datestamp though unrecorded by H&G and RL Encyclopaedia, not present in the Ed Druce collection and possibly unique

1897 1d Arms Newspaper Wrapper, the indicia punctured 'OS/NSW' alongside printed 'Government Tourist Bureau, Sydney' and used locally at Sydney (30.12.1900?). File fold and a few blemishes though no examples in the Druce or Bell collections and very scarce thus